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Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.
The virtue of honesty requires more than just telling the truth
2021年12月13日 · is the A C Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He is the author of Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue (2021), Moral Psychology (2021) and The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2017), among other books. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
How to defuse catastrophic thoughts | Psyche Guides
2023年8月23日 · Key points – How to defuse catastrophic thoughts. The tendency to think the worst is common and manageable. You can learn to spot and defuse what therapists call catastrophising (assuming the worst-case scenario is happening or will happen), as well as awfulising (believing a possible event is absolutely awful or terrible). Both cause unnecessary …
How to perform well under pressure | Psyche Guides
2021年11月17日 · is a chartered sport and exercise psychologist who supports those in sport, on stage and in the professions to maximise their success. She writes extensively in the media and is the author of four books: Performing Under Pressure: Strategies for Sporting Success (2019), The Psychology of Exercise (2020), I Can: The Teenage Athlete’s Guide to Mental Fitness (2021) …
How to cope when life seems unreal | Psyche Guides
2024年4月14日 · Key points – How to cope when life seems unreal. Temporary feelings of unreality are a common and natural part of human experience.They’re often triggered as a protective mechanism in response to stress, panic attacks, trauma and cannabis.
How to cope with shame | Psyche Guides
2022年9月7日 · Need to know. Shame is a painful and complex emotional experience, and one that most human beings have endured at some point in their lives. Along with the mental distress it entails, the experience of shame often involves the presence of unpleasant feelings in our bodies (such as a knot in the throat or chest, or hollowness in the stomach or abdomen) and …
How to be angry | Psyche Guides
2024年4月14日 · Learn more. One of the most valuable ways to understand, manage, and use your anger is to keep a mood log.A mood log is a cognitive-behavioural therapy tool, used for identifying the relationships between your feelings, thoughts and situations.
How to stop overthinking | Psyche Guides
2023年5月31日 · Key points – How to stop overthinking. Persistent overthinking in the form of worry and rumination can result in a wide range of symptoms such as insomnia, trouble concentrating and loss of energy which, in turn, often lead to further worries regarding one’s symptoms, thereby creating a vicious cycle of overthinking.
How to be a better loser | Psyche Guides
2023年3月8日 · Learn more. Cultivating a focus on process rather than outcome. To be maximally resilient and to take setbacks and losses in your stride, it is imperative to focus not just on the outcome of a competition but on your process – which, as I indicated earlier, is how you set yourself up to achieve your ultimate goal, via practice and preparation. Let’s dig further into …
How to motivate yourself to change | Psyche Guides
2024年1月21日 · What to do. There are four key stages involved when practitioners use motivational interviewing: engagement, focusing, evocation and planning. Engagement, which we won’t cover further in this Guide, refers to the need for practitioners to build a positive relationship or therapeutic alliance with their client or patient. We’ll start with the next stage, focusing, …